Jeff Biggs

Mass timber has come a long way since the first two Canadian plants in Quebec and B.C. established cross-laminated timber production lines more than a decade ago. A recent report produced by the federal government, The State of the Mass Timber Industry in Canada in 2021, displays through an interactive map close to 500 under construction or completed mass timber projects from 2007 to 2019 for a total of 16 million square feet. In that time, domestic manufacturing has soared with 21 facilities in production by 2019. …The federal Green Construction Through Wood (GC Wood) program produced the report to provide an overview of the rise of mass timber, says Jeff Biggs, director of trade and international affairs, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada. …Its findings will be of interest to the forest and sustainability sectors because “it answers a lot of the questions we often receive from trade partners,” including designers from overseas and the U.S., he says.